Rivalry Week: 10 Best Predictions ATS

Here’s the thing about Oregon State. At bad as it is, it doesn’t get royally roasted.

Oregon might be on a roll at home – being Utah by 21 and Arizona by 20 – but the Beavers should be just okay enough in their last game of the season to put a few points on the board in a. rivalry game.

Two assumptions to make here. 1) Memphis is going to want to get up early, coast, and get everyone rested for the American Athletic title game against UCF next week with a New Year’s Six bowl game likely on the line. 2) East Carolina is going to bomb, bomb, bomb.

As miserable as the Pirate season has been, the offense can score a little bit. If this was played in mid-October, Memphis would be the easy call. But, again, assuming MU gets up, coasts, and wins easily – just not by 28.5.

It’s all about whether or not Wisconsin royally screws up. Minnesota can’t throw the ball a lick, and now the ground game has to try dealing with a frothing defense that stopped Iowa, Michigan, and everyone else.

The Badgers have turned up their game a few notches over the last few weeks, and Minnesota got shut out by Northwestern.

Utah State is 105th in the nation against the run allowing 203 yards per game. The Air Force offense isn’t working over a three-game losing streak, but now it gets to go against a tissue paper run D. At home, in the season finale, the Falcons run wild.

Let’s not make this harder than it has to be. UTSA is already bowl eligible, and Louisiana Tech needs this to go bowling. At home the 1.5 doesn’t matter – go with the team that desperately has to have this over a UTSA team with a. mediocre offense.

Both teams are going for a bowl game, which means both teams are going to pull out everything possible to get this done.

Utah might have blown out UCLA at home, but that was different – that was the Josh Rosen-less version of UCLA. Outside of that, the Utes have lost six of their last seven games, with a defense that’s allowing 30 points or more in four of the last five.

The Utes should win, but that 10.5 against this Colorado offense is way too fat.

Let’s just assume the Iowa version of Ohio State doesn’t get on the bus.

How, exactly, is Michigan going to score 12.5 points with John O’Korn at quarterback?

Let’s just assume that the Buckeye offensive line comes out firing, the quick-hitting passes connect early on, and once the excitement of the start of the rivalry game starts to fizzle away, everything settles in for an Ohio State team going for style points.